公开(公告)号：US06460810B2

公开(公告)日：2002-10-08

申请号：US09878903

申请日：2001-01-22

申请人： Terry Jack James

发明人： Terry Jack James

IPC分类号： G05D100

CPC分类号： B64C39/024 ,  B64C29/0025 ,  B64C2201/104 ,  B64C2201/128 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  B64C2201/165 ,  B64C2201/185

摘要： A device for programming industry standard autopilots by unskilled pilots. The effect of the invention is such that when the invention is employed in a flying body comprising an industry standard autopilot with a digital flight control system, the invention provides for the safe operation of any aircraft by an unskilled pilot. The device additionally affords skilled pilots a more rapid and simplified means of programming autopilots while in flight thus reducing a skilled pilot's cockpit workload for all aircraft flight and directional steering, way points, and aircraft flight functions reducing the possibility of pilot error so as to effect safer flight operations of an aircraft by affording a skilled pilot to direct aircraft steering and function while under continuous autopilot control.

公开(公告)号：US06445983B1

公开(公告)日：2002-09-03

申请号：US09611510

申请日：2000-07-07

申请人： Monte A. Dickson ,  Noboru Noguchi ,  Qin Zhang ,  John F. Reid ,  Jeffrey D. Will

发明人： Monte A. Dickson ,  Noboru Noguchi ,  Qin Zhang ,  John F. Reid ,  Jeffrey D. Will

IPC分类号： G05D100

CPC分类号： G01C21/165 ,  A01B69/008 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G05D1/027 ,  G05D1/0274 ,  G05D1/0278 ,  G05D2201/0201

摘要： An automatically guided agricultural vehicle with multiple sensors is disclosed. The automatically guided agricultural vehicle includes guidance parameter identification using multi-sensor data fusion for real-time vehicle guidance. To insure robust navigation, a map-based guidance and sensor-based guidance are disclosed and integrated because no individual sensing technology is ideally suited for vehicle automation under all modes of use. The appropriate sensor and operational mode will depend on the field status of time or operation. A fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) and a real-time kinematic GPS (RTK-GPS) and machine vision are added to the guidance system in order to improve reliability of the system for vehicle guidance. The navigator includes key functions of selecting control mode, correcting position by vehicle roll/pitch inclinations, Kalman filtering, and calculating a steering angle.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种具有多个传感器的自动导向农用车辆。 自动引导的农用车辆包括使用多传感器数据融合进行实时车辆引导的引导参数识别。 为了确保强大的导航，基于地图的指导和基于传感器的指导被公开和集成，因为没有任何个别的感测技术在所有使用模式下都非常适用于车辆自动化。 适当的传感器和操作模式将取决于时间或操作的现场状态。 为了提高车辆引导系统的可靠性，在引导系统中增加了光纤陀螺仪（FOG）和实时运动学GPS（RTK-GPS）和机器视觉。 导航仪包括选择控制模式，通过车辆滚动/俯仰倾斜校正位置，卡尔曼滤波和计算转向角度的关键功能。

公开(公告)号：US06438468B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-20

申请号：US09724228

申请日：2000-11-28

申请人： Dan Muxlow ,  Lisa A. Mueller ,  Stephen Earl Mead

发明人： Dan Muxlow ,  Lisa A. Mueller ,  Stephen Earl Mead

IPC分类号： G05D100

CPC分类号： G08G5/0013 ,  G08G5/0021 ,  G08G5/0026

摘要： Systems and methods for providing data updates to a vehicle component (such as a navigation database on an aircraft) make use of a system server, a vehicle server, and an administrative program. The system server is configured to receive and store said data updates from a source. The vehicle server obtains data updates from the system server and loads the data updates into the appropriate component. In various embodiments, the aircraft server sends a verification message to the system server to indicate success or failure of the load operation. An administrative program may be configured to direct the system server to provide said data updates to the vehicle server in accordance with pre-determined rules, and a database may be used to maintain information about data upgrades for various vehicles.

摘要翻译： 用于向车辆部件（例如飞行器上的导航数据库）提供数据更新的系统和方法利用系统服务器，车辆服务器和管理程序。 系统服务器被配置为从源接收和存储所述数据更新。 车辆服务器从系统服务器获取数据更新，并将数据更新加载到适当的组件中。 在各种实施例中，飞行服务器向系统服务器发送验证消息以指示加载操作的成功或失败。 管理程序可以被配置为指示系统服务器根据预定规则向车辆服务器提供所述数据更新，并且可以使用数据库来维护关于各种车辆的数据升级的信息。

公开(公告)号：US06438465B1

公开(公告)日：2002-08-20

申请号：US09792351

申请日：2001-02-23

申请人： Michael L. Obradovich ,  Michael L. Kent ,  John G. Dinkel

发明人： Michael L. Obradovich ,  Michael L. Kent ,  John G. Dinkel

IPC分类号： G05D100

摘要： In a multimedia information and control system for use in an automobile, at least one interface is employed which enables a user to access information concerning the automobile and control vehicle functions in an efficient manner. The user may select one of a plurality of displayed options on a screen of such an interface. Through audio, video and/or text media, the user is provided with information concerning the selected option and the vehicle function corresponding thereto. Having been so informed, the user may activate the selected option to control the corresponding vehicle function.

公开(公告)号：US06424889B1

公开(公告)日：2002-07-23

申请号：US09646917

申请日：2000-10-12

申请人： Fabienne Bonhoure ,  Fabien Inglese

发明人： Fabienne Bonhoure ,  Fabien Inglese

IPC分类号： G05D100

CPC分类号： G08G5/006 ,  G05D1/0202

摘要： A method for generating a horizontal path for the avoidance of danger zones for an aircraft. The method models the contours of each danger zone by a succession of segments demarcated by points. The method determines two homing circles and two capture circles passing respectively through the initial point and final point which are tangential respectively to the initial route and to the final route and have respectively the initial and final turning radius. The method also determines tangents both to the homing circles or the capture circles and to the contour of each danger zone. Among these tangents, a pair of tangents to a homing circle and to a capture circle are selected, defining a path skeleton connecting a homing circle to a capture circle without meeting a danger zone. And, an automatically controllable evasion path that lies on the previously defined path skeleton is then determined.

摘要翻译： 一种用于产生用于避免飞机危险区域的水平路径的方法。 该方法通过由点划分的一系列段来模拟每个危险区域的轮廓。 该方法确定分别通过初始点和最终点的两个归巢圆和两个捕获圆，它们分别与初始路线和最终路线相切，分别具有初始和最终转弯半径。 该方法还确定了归位圆或捕获圆的切线以及每个危险区的轮廓。 在这些切线中，选择一对切线到一个归位圆和一个捕获圆，定义了一个路径骨架，将一个归位圆连接到一个捕获圆而不符合危险区。 然后，确定位于先前定义的路径骨架上的自动控制的逃避路径。

公开(公告)号：US06424888B1

公开(公告)日：2002-07-23

申请号：US09481515

申请日：2000-01-12

申请人： Akira Sone ,  Masuo Sugiura

发明人： Akira Sone ,  Masuo Sugiura

IPC分类号： G05D100

CPC分类号： H04M1/576 ,  H04M1/6075

摘要： A call response method for a vehicle used in a vehicle to respond to a call received from another system includes following steps: performing a call reception previous notification for previously signaling a call reception at a predetermined interval to appeal to one sense or a combination of at lease two senses among a sense of hearing, a sense of smell and a sense of touch of a driver except for a sense of sight of the driver when a call including at least an image is received in the vehicle from another system; and performing a call reception main notification for presenting the image included in the call to appeal to the sense of sight of the driver, after performing the call reception previous notification except of the sense of sight.

摘要翻译： 一种用于车辆中用于响应从另一系统接收到的呼叫的车辆的呼叫响应方法包括以下步骤：执行呼叫接收先前通知以预先以指定间隔发出呼叫接收，以吸引一种感觉或组合 在来自另一个系统的车辆中接收到至少包含图像的呼叫时，除了驾驶员的视线外，感觉到听觉感，嗅觉感和嗅觉感觉两种感觉; 以及在执行除了视觉之外的呼叫接收以前通知之后，执行用于呈现呼叫中包括的图像以吸引驾驶员的视线的呼叫接收主通知。

公开(公告)号：US06417641B2

公开(公告)日：2002-07-09

申请号：US09841511

申请日：2001-04-23

申请人： Ehud Peless ,  Shai Abramson ,  Gideon Dror

发明人： Ehud Peless ,  Shai Abramson ,  Gideon Dror

IPC分类号： G05D100

CPC分类号： A01D34/008 ,  A01D2101/00 ,  G01C22/00 ,  G05D1/0219 ,  G05D1/0227 ,  G05D1/0234 ,  G05D1/0261 ,  G05D1/0263 ,  G05D1/0265 ,  G05D1/0274 ,  G05D2201/0208 ,  G05D2201/0216

摘要： A system for operating an autonomous robot for performing tasks, such as lawn mowing, includes an indicator and a robot configured for detecting the indicator and generating a map of the working area bounded by the indicator and correcting the position of the robot in accordance with the generated map of the working area.

摘要翻译： 用于操作用于执行诸如草坪割草等任务的自主机器人的系统包括指示器和机器人，其被配置用于检测指示器并且生成由指示器限定的工作区域的映射，并根据 生成工作区的地图。

公开(公告)号：US06389335B1

公开(公告)日：2002-05-14

申请号：US09567044

申请日：2000-05-08

申请人： David W. Vos

发明人： David W. Vos

IPC分类号： G05D100

CPC分类号： G05B9/03 ,  G05B9/02 ,  G05D1/0077

摘要： Method and apparatus for a fault tolerant automatic control system for a dynamic device having a sensor and a predetermined control algorithm include structure and steps for receiving a status signal from the sensor. Structure and steps are provided for transforming the sensor status signal and a predetermined reference signal into a linear time invariant coordinate system, generating a sensor estimate in the linear time invariant coordinate system based on the transformed sensor status signal and the transformed reference signal, transforming the sensor estimate into a physical coordinate system, detecting an error in the sensor status signal based on a comparison of the transformed sensor estimate and the sensor status signal, and reconfiguring the predetermined control algorithm based on the detected error. Preferably, the apparatus and method are implemented in an aircraft flight control system capable of detecting an aircraft sensor fault and reconfiguring the flight control program such that flight control surface actuators are commanded by ignoring or mitigating the failed sensor.

摘要翻译： 用于具有传感器和预定控制算法的动态装置的容错自动控制系统的方法和装置包括从传感器接收状态信号的结构和步骤。 提供了结构和步骤，用于将传感器状态信号和预定参考信号变换为线性时变不变坐标系，基于变换的传感器状态信号和变换的参考信号在线性时间不变坐标系中产生传感器估计， 传感器估计到物理坐标系中，基于变换的传感器估计和传感器状态信号的比较来检测传感器状态信号中的误差，并且基于检测到的误差来重新配置预定的控制算法。 优选地，该装置和方法在能够检测飞行器传感器故障并重新配置飞行控制程序的飞行器飞行控制系统中实现，使得通过忽视或减轻故障传感器来命令飞行控制表面致动器。

公开(公告)号：US06353778B1

公开(公告)日：2002-03-05

申请号：US09810029

申请日：2001-03-15

申请人： Joe Nathan Brown

发明人： Joe Nathan Brown

IPC分类号： G05D100

CPC分类号： B60R11/0241 ,  H04M1/6075 ,  H04M1/66

摘要： An automobile computer control system for limiting the usage of wireless telephones in moving automobiles comprising an implementation for sensing when the velocity of the automobile exceeds a predetermined velocity, a wireless implementation for sensing when said wireless telephone is in use by the driver of said automobile and a function responsive to both of said sensing implementations for limiting said use of said wireless telephone by said driver of said automobile when the velocity of the said automobile exceeds said predetermined velocity. For the best safety, the predetermined velocity is any moving velocity. Also, the wireless device for sensing when the velocity of the automobile exceeds a predetermined velocity may be carried out by simple infrared device.

摘要翻译： 一种用于限制移动汽车中的无线电话的使用的汽车计算机控制系统，包括用于感测何时汽车的速度超过预定速度的实施方式，用于感测所述无线电话何时由所述汽车的驾驶员使用的无线实施，以及 响应于所述感测实施方式的功能，当所述汽车的速度超过所述预定速度时，限制所述汽车的驾驶员对所述无线电话的使用。 为了最好的安全性，预定速度是任何移动速度。 此外，用于感测汽车的速度超过预定速度的无线装置可以通过简单的红外线装置进行。

公开(公告)号：US06345217B1

公开(公告)日：2002-02-05

申请号：US09539687

申请日：2000-03-31

申请人： David W. Zeitler ,  Andrew R. Black ,  Clyde Miin-Arng Ko

发明人： David W. Zeitler ,  Andrew R. Black ,  Clyde Miin-Arng Ko

IPC分类号： G05D100

CPC分类号： G05D1/0261 ,  G05D2201/0216

摘要： An automated guided vehicle system and method includes providing at least one automated-guided vehicle (AGV) and a pathway for the AGV. A sensor assembly on the AGV senses magnet assemblies on the pathway as the AGV is transported over that magnet assembly. A navigation and guidance system determines the location of the maximum magnitude of the magnetic field by mathematically fitting a curve to the magnitude of portions of the magnetic field sensed by said magnetic sensors and determines a maximum value of the curve. At least some of the said magnet assemblies each produce a bipolar magnetic field extending generally transverse to the pathway and the sensor assembly produces an output indicative of magnitude and polarity of respective portions of the bipolar magnetic field. The navigation and guidance system determines a location of maximum magnitude of the opposite polarities of the bipolar magnetic field and a correction factor. The correction factor corrects for offset of the maximum magnitudes of the field from a predetermined location on that magnet assembly including correcting for any skew of the bipolar magnetic field with respect to said pathway.

摘要翻译： 自动引导车辆系统和方法包括为AGV提供至少一个自动引导车辆（AGV）和路径。 当AGV在该磁体组件上运送时，AGV上的传感器组件感测路径上的磁体组件。 导航和引导系统通过将曲线数学拟合到由所述磁传感器感测的磁场的部分的大小并确定曲线的最大值来确定磁场的最大幅度的位置。 所述磁体组件中的至少一些各自产生大致横向于路径延伸的双极磁场，并且传感器组件产生指示双极磁场的相应部分的大小和极性的输出。 导航和引导系统确定双极性磁场的相反极性的最大幅度的位置和校正因子。 校正因子校正了磁场的最大幅度与该磁体组件上的预定位置的偏移，包括校正相对于所述路径的双极磁场的任何偏斜。